1 The Work that I loved so much

I woke up like any other day where like many people it's happens because it is Monday and I wanted to sleep a little longer, while listening to the alarm ringing I opened one eye and when I saw the outside as it was raining hard I decided to curl up more and say in a whisper *come on five more minutes*, so I stretched out my hand and feeling the alarm I turned it off and turned around, my mother always scolded me because I slept with electrical devices on top of the bed, a close example was the cell phone.

I wanted my five more minutes but mu appetite for breackfast was stronger, although I still got up with some calm, I stretched my arms out still lying in bed. Touched my cheeks and said to myself 'you win, it's time to start the day', I got up a little and picked up the phone and there were 2 messages from my boss and my co-worker, giving a sigh of -again- I decided to check it over and not read it calmly, I really didn't want to earn a headache at 7: 08 am.

I left my cell phone aside and got up completely, i decided to look at the glass and see the rain and from there go to the bathroom to wash up, while I was on my way to the bathroom my tremendous cat named Pecosa passed by me, as if the cat understood me I said "Good morning my child", I looked at my face in the mirror and noticed how my black and wavy hair was longer, I could only smile and wink at the hair, i didn't close the bathroom door because the mania of cats is to howl for you open them and not even go out.

I ignored Pecosa for a few minutes while I did my hair up and started to look for my change of clothes, or commonly said my change of clothes for work. I am secretary of an executive insurance company, recognized in Spain, after having the clothes I decided to take a warm shower and get ready, then I got dressed and started to prepare breakfast, Pecosa did not mess with the food, as I got used to it or tired to make her eat after me breakfast, it was little difficult but sometimes if she accepted to have breakfast after me finish.

I had a quick breakfast, a warm chocolate with toast and a little bit of Apple pie that I had brought from Mom's house. I finished getting ready and put on some sneakers, so I served milk and you favorite food, then I checked everything and got my bag along with my hearing aids to go straight to work.

I went down the stairs, since I don't live in a very high floor of my residences I didn't worry about using the elevator unless I was carrying something heavy or it was necessary, being outside the first thing I did was to put the cell phone at hand and connect the audios to listen to music, after putting the cell phone away with the chosen music was to take out the umbrella and walk carefully, from time to time I looked at my wrist watch and noticed that it was in good time, somehow I had gotten a god time for my, I lived partly close to work, I just had to take a bus to leave me in front or my work.

I arrived 20 minutes early to my work area, that was more than good, I could get coffee for my boss and leave it in his office, turn on the computer calmly and organize my area a little more. Just when I had done almost everything I wanted, Gloria arrived with a mood that seemed to be in mourning, I decided to pause a music that I loved from Celine Dion just to hear what was happening with Gloria, the last I thing I thought was that when I opened my mouth I would be include in a mess.

Gloria: -moaning with my mouth- Luz, I'm up to my neck in depression.

Luz: come on, tell me what happened, before the cloud floods my desk.

Gloria: -she sits down and lays her head on the desk- bu, because men are so heavy .

Luz: *here he goes again, Marcelo asked him to settle down*, because if you don't tell me, I won't know what happened, stop eating my head and tell me now.

Gloria, who stand up suddenly and spins around more that a caged lion, looks at me and says "you're still wearing your sneakers", while she finally tells me her whole Odyssey. Marcelo, her ex, asked her to come back and this time they will get married, but Gloria was partly very festive in every way and left more than one person in sight. While I had managed to change my shoes and hide the sneakers, I sighed while still talking and said to myself *I don't understand why it gets so complicated, she is beautiful, her short brown hair always straightened, her brown eyes made more than one guy fall out and her model body more than one man wanted to have… or had already had, but… her flaw was that with everyone she wanted something and noting at the same time*.

Gloria made me wake up from my thoughts with a question that in a few words I took of home rum, when I reacted my face was a big -¿What?-

Luz: wait Gloria, repeat that please.

Gloria: ¿you didn't listen to the audio I sent you and you didn't read my messages, did you?.

Luz: uh… I read it over, i was actually making breakfast while reading it and i missed some things.

Gloria: you see Luz -she's closer to me- it's that someone from the company has been… you know… making money off the company and they'll question all of us.

Luz: but, how is that possible, I am perplexed Gloria.

Not even five minutes has paseed since we had touched on that subject when my boss arrived all serious and when he saw us the just said good morning and that in a few minutes we would be interrogated and from there he would leave with the same, I had left myself pensive, although I understood the delicate thing.

Gloria, for some reason, just accommodate her clothes and touched up ther makeup. I didn't know whether to laugh or get mad at her for what she was doing. I could only observe and wait for the call for such an interrogation, so I decided to sit down and bring forward the work I had left on Friday to be handed in this very afternoon for a meeting my boss was planning to hold with new investors.

I saw a beautiful girl in a beige suit whit short brown hair and black eyes appear at the end of the day.

Girl: Good morning ladies, please come into Ricardo's office.

Gloria: well, come on let's go.

Luz: Ah! Yeah, sure come on.

His way of naming my boss's name without saying anything first as Lic. Martinez or Mr. Ricardo had taken me off base and left me very pensive, more than intriguing were doubts about such confidence. We arrived and sat in the chairs next to my boss's, she was neither short nor lazy and sat in my boss's chair and while she was fixing her hair she looked at our papers and looked at both of us.

Girl: I don't know if you've been told my name, but if not I'll introduce myself, I'm Carolina Córdoba.

Gloria: ¿Are you a friend of the boss?, for such confidence from only Richard.

I wanted to die from the pain of seeing Gloria ask that question, even though if I had any doubt I would not have asked it such a way.

Luz: Gloria, stop being so nosy, that's none of our business. -fixed eyes-

Gloria: okay okay, I'll cut to the chase.

Carolina: it's ok girl, we are just good friend, now going back to our business… they know that half a million dollars and euros have disappeared.

Gloria: what a feast the thief gave himself, I did not know what he would do with so much money and your Luz.

Luz: the truth is too much money for me, so much that I would go crazy, ¿who would do such a robbery? If we're ok on our salary.

In fact, our profits in the company were good, nobody earned less than the minimum wage, since here we fulfilled several tasks a little more extensive than other companies and therefore we could give ourselves the small luxury of earing in dollars or euros.

Carolina: you are the last ones to be interrogated, from there I will investigate the culprit and we will give you and arrest.

Gloria: well, anytime I ask.

Luz: we will help in every way possible, this is bad for all of us.

Gloria: ¿What are you talking about, woman?.

Luz: -she takes a hand to her head- Gloria, this will go on our curriculum for future companies, it is not something that will only remain here and will not affect us.

Carolina: you are an excellent secretary and you know little bit about everything. In fact, this file is not only kept by the police but also by your papers.

Gloria: go to work, come on.

After Gloria said that i went out until she finished her interrogation so i could go in, I was not one of those people to gossip or to listen in hiding, even if I had a slight desire I held back and decided to wait calmly, the truth is that all this was strange to me, since it had never happened before. After almost and hour I hear the door open and like somewhat pensive Gloria from the studio and as I looked at the floor she passed by me without a peep.

I advanced to the door and them calmly closed it, I watched as Carolina pointed to the chair while I looked for my folder and started to look at it, I sat down calmly and waited for her to start her questions, she not only looked at my resume but also at the information of my previous jobs and recommendations.

Carolina: ¿Did you ever have any misunderstandings in your current or past work?.

Luz: in the previous one it was only word brushes that did not reach anything serious or harmful to the business.

Carolina: ¿What was the reason?.

Luz: -sighing- bullyng.

Carolina: -stop looking at the file and stare at it while raising an eyebrow- ¿Do I get to be against you?.

Luz: -she denies with her head- it was against a colleague, better said ex-colleague since because of that she committed suicide.

Carolina was moving around as soon as I said those words, the same words that were in that folder about why I had that dispute and how my old work friend was taking her life because of bullying and I was the one who had found her.

Carolina: I'm sorry, I didn't want to make up remember that bitter drink, but I need to know how long you knew each other.

Luz: I worked in the packaging company for four years, we met at the job interview and became acquainted and from there we eventually became friends.

Carolina: ¿How many jobs have you had before this one?.

Luz: four jobs, only one I left a month for a new office job.

I couldn't deny that it made me feel like my first time at a job interview in this company, except for my friend. I was curious to be asked about it, but i figured it was just a formality of breaking the ice and them asking the question of the case.

Indeed, after a long silence he began this question about the case, such as ¿What would I do if I had that money?, ¿If I needed it?, ¿What would I use it for or spend it on?, ¿Would she have accomplices or would she work alone?, them he gave me several images given by the psychologist and told me what he saw in the image, then the password to my computer and access codes to other audits.

Carolina: Today in the afternoon the wole result will be together with the arrest of the culprit. That's all for now, you'll be assigned to another computer while this theft investigation takes place, you must let us know about your lunch hour.

Luz: understood graduate.

In fact, I had to write down on a sheet of paper my arrival, lunch and departure times from the company's premises. From there I left and walked around with more questions than answers, Gloria by her side had moved away from me and I didn't know how to react since sometimes talking to her was not so tedious; as I wasn't doing much in the area I decided to check my cell phone and this time with more calm read her chain and see if I got any answer.

I made slight pauses in my reading since sometimes they called asking for general information, so after giving them calmly and contacting the boss I followed my chain reading; from a will I had to make a summary since Gloria sometimes said so much that she didn't say anityng, and so it was that I each point I copied my summary separately and when I put everything together it was that I managed to understand a little more what happened.

Because I was in Gloria's will, I didn't notice that a man was partly watching my movements, so at lunchtime he held me back with his question.

Guard: ¿Were do you think you're going?.

Luz: well, if my watch doesn't fail, it's my lunch hour. I've put in the folder the lecenciate gave me.

Guard: he checked the information.

While he was checking my information i was watching to see if he left anything behind, what I loved besides eating was listening to music and enjoying my lunch. As I watch him touch my desk and apologize for doubting me, I see him give way and follow me intro the dining room.

Some were uncomfortable about it, I just ignored it and for some reason warned thin that I was going to listen to music in case he didn't hear it. He just nodded and hopefully warmed up my food and bought a drink so that I could sit down and eat from there.

He sat down next to me and watched as I shook my head at every music I didn't want to hear at that moment, out of the corner of my eye I noticed that I wasn't the only one with an unwanted companion, so I ignored it and ate my rich pasta with meatballs, parmesan cheese and tomato sauce in the company of a nice blackberry shake.

When i was finishing my lunch i noticed how they call the guard who 'take care of' me and he gave me a signal that we should go up in 15 minutes, so I could finish my lunch partly calmly, with won I was a bit quick was whit the shake that was so good that I took it easy, but I rushed and when I went up I found my brush to clean my mouth.

I was ready just 12 minutes later and tha guard didn't know whether to be surprised or to laugh because he had him from now to sterm. When we arrived at my boss's office they put us all in his office and Carolina whit a face would be warning us that they already know who the thief is, the thief was not working alone but with the help of someone else.

Carolina: Gentlemen, what I am about to say is very delicate, but I recommend that you confess before everything gets worse, since we will not call it a separate issue here.

We all looked at each other's faces, I imagined they were doing it to see our nervous gestures, but I still felt as lost as a tourist in Colombia. When Carolina saw that no one was saying anything, she decided to put a little pressure on herself and say.

Carolina: Well, since no one will cooperate by force, arrest this woman for me -pointing at me with your finger-.

Luz: ¿What? Wait, I don't understand… what's going on here.

Mr. Ricardo, who entered the office when he saw that I was being arrested, could only be amazed at such an act, while looking at Carolina and asking for an explanation.

Mr. Ricardo: ¿Are you sure about this, Carolina?, you don't do it by just pushing.

Carolina: ¿Why do you defend her? Or maybe you haven't thought about it for a minute -you look curious-

Mr. Ricardo: I never really thought about it, he's been here for years and I find it hard to believe.

Many, seeing me handcuffed and next to me the guard who was guarding me, their expressions were of hate and 'I knew you were guilty with that face of not killing a fly', made me feel shivers and have memories that I had thought had been overcome. I didn't know why, but seeing Gloria's face was like a stab wound. Carolina, when she saw that I didn't even catch the thief, started to comment because I was the accomplice, all the transaction to an account that the owner doesn't know yet were made from my computer and right on the days that I stayed late at the office.

My suspired face and whispered questions made me more confused than before, Carolina who couldn't stand it any longer decided to take off her mask from good to bad detective and ordered the arrest of Mr. Gomez, who worked in finance and was Mr. Miguel in charge of security for the company.

The astonishment of everyone was not for less, although they had the guilty ones none rectified that i was not implicated in it, the man who pretended to be my 'watchman' himself was Carolina's partner and he had the feeling that with me they had made a mistake.

I went with them to station to the police station and was and interrogated for more than 24 hours; I always told the truth, even with the evidence against me that I knew nothing about, i explained my whole itinerary to them until the departure times after my boss left. Carolina claimed she was good at acting and lying, but her partner Alejandro sensed she was telling the truth; Without telling Carolina, she let me have a hot chocolate and get my strength back, and them she gave me a polygraph test so I could get out of trouble.

He talked to her again and suggested that I take the test, but she refused; he decided to talk to my former boss and prove that I was innocent, even though my boss believed in the evidence, he could not do anything for me. Alejandro decided to make a detailed report and explain the reason for my release, although he had managed to get out, he already had a record with the police, so looking for a job would cost a bit.

When i got home the first thing I did was to feed my little girl since she had almost one day without eating, I serverd her up to the limit and told her "eat enough", I called my mother and told her wath happend; she was angry and it was not for noting, she asked me to give me a few days for myself and she will forget all that. So that's watch I did after a long bath, I cried to remember my friend and decided to go to her grave the next day and leave her flowers.

What i didn't even count on was that my mother, after knowing my plans for that day, left me a voice mail, telling me that her friend was looking for employees, she had her bar a few minutes away from the beach and had accommodations, while I watched the cat looking for attention and I said "Do you want to go to the beach?" with just one meow I agreed to go and try to get lucky.